Select pins and pin label by SKILL.

Hi Marbs

You can find the pins using the skillscript below. Save it as "findpins.il" in your working directory and load it in ciw using:

load "findpins.il"

Press F10 in a layout and note the output messages in ciw.

In general, you can start coding such a script using the following steps:
a. Identify the target. In this case, it is a pin
b. Identify unique properties on the target through ~> operator:
- Select the target in layout/schematic
- Enter a=car(geGetSelSet()) in ciw to get a handle to the target
- Use a~>? to know more about the target
c. After you have some idea on its properties, do some looping to get it
d. Make some guesses on the type of skill functions needed. E.g. we need to select the pins so we will need some selection functions
e. Refer to the appropriate manuals for the skill functions. E.g. for layout, look in sklayoutref.pdf
f. $CDSHOME/doc/skdfref/skdfref.pdf and $CDSHOME/doc/sklayoutref/sklayoutref.pdf are very useful manuals

Best regards
Quek

procedure( CCSfindPins()
   let( (cv allPins count overlapShapes)
      cv=geGetWindowCellView()
      allPins=setof(x cv~>shapes x~>pin)
      count=0
      foreach( pin allPins
         overlapShapes=dbGetOverlaps(cv pin~>bBox pin~>lpp 0:32)
         unless( length(overlapShapes)>1
            geSelectFig(pin)
            count++
            printf("Isolated %L pin with net %s found at %L\n"
                 pin~>lpp pin~>net~>name centerBox(pin~>bBox))
         ) ;unless
      ) ;foreach
      printf("%n isolated pin(s) selected in cell %s\n"
                                               count cv~>cellName)
   ) ;let
) ;procedure

hiSetBindKey("Layout" "F10" "CCSfindPins()")

Hi Marbs

You can find the pins using the skillscript below. Save it as "findpins.il" in your working directory and load it in ciw using:

load "findpins.il"

Press F10 in a layout and note the output messages in ciw.

In general, you can start coding such a script using the following steps:
a. Identify the target. In this case, it is a pin
b. Identify unique properties on the target through ~> operator:
- Select the target in layout/schematic
- Enter a=car(geGetSelSet()) in ciw to get a handle to the target
- Use a~>? to know more about the target
c. After you have some idea on its properties, do some looping to get it
d. Make some guesses on the type of skill functions needed. E.g. we need to select the pins so we will need some selection functions
e. Refer to the appropriate manuals for the skill functions. E.g. for layout, look in sklayoutref.pdf
f. $CDSHOME/doc/skdfref/skdfref.pdf and $CDSHOME/doc/sklayoutref/sklayoutref.pdf are very useful manuals

Best regards
Quek

procedure( CCSfindPins()
   let( (cv allPins count overlapShapes)
      cv=geGetWindowCellView()
      allPins=setof(x cv~>shapes x~>pin)
      count=0
      foreach( pin allPins
         overlapShapes=dbGetOverlaps(cv pin~>bBox pin~>lpp 0:32)
         unless( length(overlapShapes)>1
            geSelectFig(pin)
            count++
            printf("Isolated %L pin with net %s found at %L\n"
                 pin~>lpp pin~>net~>name centerBox(pin~>bBox))
         ) ;unless
      ) ;foreach
      printf("%n isolated pin(s) selected in cell %s\n"
                                               count cv~>cellName)
   ) ;let
) ;procedure

hiSetBindKey("Layout" "F10" "CCSfindPins()")